The phrase "toolbox" is used by artists that draw and paint - also known as the artist's toolbox. Some workshop instructors that teach classical art skills to photographers refer to it as the photographer's toolbox. Basically, the "toolbox" is a set of skills or techniques that the artist or photographer should learn, master, and apply to their art. For example, some of the techniques in a toolbox would be the armature of the rectangle, figure-ground relationship, notional space, aerial perspective, perspective, gazing direction, overlapping (creating the illusion of the third dimension), radiating lines, etc. The photograph above was taken in Gettysburg, PA using the techniques figure-ground relationship and separating elements. To learn more about these techniques, click here.

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